AM Announcements - February 17

AM Announcements
February 17, 2009

1. Today is Day 104.

2. It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

3. Calendar items for this week:

Tuesday: February 17
Marzano Staff Development - 2:40-4:00
McDonald's Night - 5:00-8:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00
Meet the Principal - 6:30-7:30

Wednesday: February 18

Fifth Grade Science Session - Goal 3 - Room 169 4:00-6:00 PM

Thursday: February 19
IEP Training - EC Staff

Friday: February 20

System-wide Spelling Bee - 10:00-12:00

Operations and School Board at Speas - 3:30

4. At the end of each day, please do the following:
a. CLOSE ALL BLINDS
b. TURN OFF ALL MONITORS and COMPUTERS (CPU's)

5. The copier in the Hive will be reconnected on March 02. I will reiterate one thing we have said time and time again, do not print classroom sets of materials on the printer. That has already happened and I had to speak to those individuals. That is the most expensive way to make copies and we can't afford it.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. February 23 - Interim Reports go home
b. February 24 - Technology Staff development
c. February 25 - Author Susan Crummel's visit - 8:15-9:00 - gym
d. February 25 - Jump Rope for Heart - 12:15

7. The Zone Choice period is February 23- March 6. Any parents wishing their children to remain at Speas do not have to do anything. The child will be automatically assigned to Speas. If they desire to switch to one of the other schools in Zone 5, they must request a Choice Card from our office. The out-of-zone transfer period will follow later in the spring.

8. If anyone asks you about registering for Kindergarten, remind them that beginning this year, children must turn five (5) on or before August 31.

9. Don't forget to fill out your Art's Council Fund Drive pledge sheet. Our students attend the Nutcracker or Swan Lake thanks to the generosity of the Arts Council

10. Representatives from Operations and the School Board will be here Friday afternoon to take a walk around the building and get a sense of how Plans A and B will impact the renovation.

11. Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)